VMware Cloud Foundation Automation – All Apps Organization Configurations

In today’s private cloud world, enterprise IT is evolving from “build and manually manage everything” to “provide agile, self-service infrastructure to application teams,” while still maintaining governance, security, and cost control.

With VMware Cloud Foundation Automation, you have a platform delivered by the provider team (or the internal cloud platform team) that hands off a polished, governed, ready-to-use environment to your organization’s administrators, who then enable application teams.

In VCF Automation, an organization is a top-level construct created by the provider administrator to represent a tenant or line of business. Each organization operates within its own secure, isolated boundary, ensuring that users can access only the services and resources assigned to them. Organizations consume capacity and cloud services from a shared resource pool, and then subdivide those resources for their application teams — modeled in VCF Automation as Projects and Namespaces. Within each organization, users are assigned roles that define their access and responsibilities, enabling controlled, governed self-service.

Think of it like a modern enterprise campus: the provider team has constructed the building — the power, cooling, network backbone, and secure access points. Now the keys are handed over to the organization administrator to define how the space is used — allocating areas for teams, setting access controls, defining shared services, and ensuring everyone can work efficiently within the infrastructure’s boundaries.

The foundation is ready — now it’s time to prepare the workspace where applications and teams will thrive.

In this blog, we’re focusing on the moment right after the hand-off: you’re the org admin, the region quota has been allocated, the networking plumbing is in place, and your “All Apps” organization is ready for configuration.

Why “All Apps Organization”? Because this organization type is designed to support the broadest range of workloads — from traditional VM-based application stacks to containerized microservices platforms— both of which your application teams expect to consume at speed and with consistency. Your role as the organization admin is to set that up once — defining Projects/Namespaces, configuring networking and consumption boundaries, setting identity providers up and user access, and making sure app teams can hit the ground running — all while protecting the underlying infrastructure.

In the next few minutes, you’ll see what configuration tasks lie in front of you as the organization administrator: how to map and assign the allocated resources and networking, how to create the Projects and Namespaces your teams will use to access OOTB cloud services, consume the allocated networking model (VPCs, transit gateways, external IP blocks) and set up governance. Once it’s all done, your organization is effectively ready for application teams to self-serve and provision infrastructure and applications.

Below is a more detailed video walkthrough that steps you through the organization configuration flow.

Summary

With the All Apps organization now configured, you’ve successfully completed one of the most important hand-off steps in VCF Automation — enabling your application teams to consume governed cloud resources with the same flexibility and simplicity they expect from public cloud platforms.

From here, the focus shifts to day-2 operations: enabling OOTB cloud services for self-service IaaS consumption, onboarding additional teams and projects, refining quota allocation, and publishing standardized blueprints to accelerate deployments.

Ready to get started with VCF Automation and enable IT to deliver a self-service private cloud for application teams to build, run, and manage AI, Kubernetes, and VM-based applications?

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